Ran Yan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ran Yan (冉燕)
Alias(es)	Yanyan — used by Shi Xinyi 149
Gender	Female 149
Affiliation	Player group in the St. Mary's Sanatorium Instance; later works closely with Bo Yi 149 208 215
Occupation/Role	Newcomer player; assigned patient in the sanatorium 149 156
Residence within the Instance	Room 302, shared with veteran player Shen Jiayue 176 179
Status	Alive when she and Bo Yi unlock the outer gate and white light appears beyond it 215
First Appearance	First explicitly identified in the supplied passages in “St. Mary's Sanatorium (4)” 149

Background / History

First Instance and admission examination

Ran Yan enters St. Mary's Sanatorium as a newcomer undertaking her first Instance. When Shi Xinyi nearly screams at the sight of two players with syringes embedded in their eyes, Ran Yan covers her mouth and reminds her of the nurse’s prohibition against loud noises. Bo Yi notices her quick thinking and privately considers her intelligent 149 189.

The sanatorium’s admission examination leaves all four of Ran Yan’s limbs twisted into grotesque angles. She loses consciousness from pain, although she is not bleeding out as Shi Xinyi is 156.

Shi Xinyi’s disappearance

After surviving a night of patient attacks, Ran Yan discovers that Shi Xinyi is missing. She insists on searching Room 309 and breaks down beside bloodied remains she believes belong to her friend. Shi Xinyi then returns alive and reveals that the bloodied bed was not hers. Ran Yan embraces her, but becomes defensive when Bo Yi questions how Shi Xinyi survived alone 172 173.

Ran Yan also challenges the suspicion surrounding Shi Xinyi’s bloodstained clothes, pointing to blood on Bo Yi’s clothing. He demonstrates that his stains came from an injury to his own palm, undermining her comparison 174.

When Shi Xinyi is selected for a follow-up examination and fails to return, Ran Yan searches the fourth-floor consultation rooms. Bo Yi finds her there and leads her into the concealed laboratory, warning that someone who dies in the sanatorium may leave no body behind 179 185 186.

Revenge against the vessels

Ran Yan helps Bo Yi retrieve ward keys from a blood pool. Finding the key marked 309, Shi Xinyi’s ward number, convinces her that her friend has died. She blames the woman floating in the pool and slashes her face with the key. The shallow wound causes the woman’s body to wither and sink, revealing how vulnerable a damaged vessel can be 187.

Bo Yi then shows her the laboratory’s reserve vessels. Determined to disrupt the plan that killed Shi Xinyi, Ran Yan smashes nearly every glass case with a chair. Her attempt to cut a sleeping woman fails against its resilient skin; she cuts her own hand to verify that the glass shard is sharp. The vessels awaken before she can try a key instead 188.

During their retreat, Ran Yan slips on glass and cries out, triggering the vessels’ rapid attacks. They throw her onto the shard-covered floor, leaving her unconscious and bleeding heavily. Bo Yi discovers that her blood weakens their skin and, with Mitian’s help, destroys them. He then gives Ran Yan Holy Medicine, healing her wounds and reviving her 189 190.

Searching for Bo Yi

Ran Yan becomes disillusioned with the veteran players’ fixation on Holy Medicine and mere survival rather than escaping. When Bo Yi is taken away, she abandons her plan to recruit them and searches alone after lights-out 195 196.

A flesh monster intercepts her before she reaches the fourth floor. She suppresses her scream but spends the entire night fleeing it, gaining a reprieve only at dawn. At the subsequent celebration, she finds Bo Yi unconscious on a table and tries to approach him, but Shen Jiayue stops her because the orderlies are watching 197 198.

After Bo Yi recovers, Ran Yan is relieved. She had feared that his condition resulted from using his precious medicine to save her 207.

Organizing the escape

While Bo Yi draws the pursuing NPCs away, Ran Yan rallies the five other players to search for the escape key. Their refusal prompts her to threaten that she and Bo Yi will lock the exit behind them if they find it alone. She then uses a hand-drawn map to divide the sanatorium into six search areas 208 209.

The search finds Nina’s empty key ring but no escape key. Ran Yan’s reminder that their ward keys are also keys prompts Bo Yi to investigate his own. She subsequently helps retrieve keys from the blood pool; assembling all twenty on Nina’s ring restores the original key set 210 212.

When the other players rush outside and are attacked by patients, Ran Yan declines to rescue them and focuses on how she and Bo Yi can reach the still-locked outer gate. She offers to lure the patients away, but Bo Yi rejects the plan as too dangerous. She likewise refuses to let him undertake another dangerous diversion alone 214 215.

Their alternative succeeds: Bo Yi destroys the Saintess Statue, drawing the patients upstairs, while Ran Yan checks that the lobby and grounds are clear. Together they lock the sanatorium doors and open the outer iron gate with the eighth key they try 215.

Appearance

• Short hair, distinguishing her from the long-haired Shi Xinyi 149.
• Develops pronounced dark circles after spending a night fleeing the flesh monster 197.

Personality

Ran Yan is observant despite her inexperience. She remembers the sanatorium’s noise rule under pressure and acts before Shi Xinyi can violate it. Early on, she openly seeks guidance from veteran players about finding clues 149 176.

Her loyalty can override caution. She repeatedly searches for Shi Xinyi despite expecting a terrible outcome, initially resists evidence against her, and pursues revenge without waiting to understand the vessels’ defenses. Nevertheless, she remains capable of containing her fear, as demonstrated by suppressing a scream when confronted by the flesh monster 173 174 185 188 197.

Ran Yan values reciprocal help rather than passive dependence. Bo Yi’s conduct becomes her standard for judging the veteran players, whose selfishness leaves her increasingly angry and disappointed. She eventually refuses to risk herself for them, while remaining willing to endanger herself for Bo Yi 195 196 212 214 215.

Abilities & Skills

Rule Awareness and Observation

• Prevents Shi Xinyi from screaming by recalling Nina’s warning 149.
• Tests whether the pursuing NPCs will target her by deliberately running past them; they ignore her, supporting her argument that the others can search safely 208.
• Recognizes the ward keys as a possible overlooked clue when the group begins doubting that an escape key exists 210.

Search Coordination

• Draws a map detailing the sanatorium’s areas 209.
• Divides the building into six sections and assigns one player to each, with a third-floor meeting point afterward 209.
• Overcomes the group’s refusal to participate by threatening to deny them access to the exit 208.

Blood Interaction with Vessels

• Her examination results are marked “failed”; Bo Yi connects her blood’s effect on the vessels to the nutrient solution’s required effective concentration 189 190.
• Before she takes Holy Medicine, her blood causes vessel skin to shrivel, allowing Bo Yi and Mitian to break it and destroy the bodies 190.
• This is an observed interaction, not a technique she consciously uses. After treating her, Bo Yi warns her to avoid injury for the next day and prevent NPCs from obtaining her blood, lest she become nourishment for them 190.

Equipment / Items

• Ward key — Carries a room key and considers using it against a laboratory vessel 188.
• Shi Xinyi’s Room 309 key — Retrieved from the blood pool and used to damage the vessel floating there 187.
• Chair — Improvised tool used to smash the vessels’ glass cases 188.
• Glass shard — Used in an unsuccessful attack on a vessel and to test its sharpness on her own hand 188.
• Hand-drawn sanatorium map — Used to organize the escape-key search 209.
• Holy Medicine — Administered by Bo Yi to heal her extensive glass wounds 190.
• Reassembled key ring — Temporarily entrusted to her during the final escape plan 215.

Relationships

• Shi Xinyi — Friend and teammate who calls her “Yanyan.” Ran Yan protects her, searches for her after both disappearances, and seeks revenge after finding her ward key in the blood pool 149 172 173 185 187 195.
• Bo Yi — Initially faces her hostility for questioning Shi Xinyi, but later becomes her rescuer and trusted escape partner. Ran Yan searches for him alone, defends him against the other players, and refuses to let him bear all the danger of their final plan 173 174 190 196 197 212 215.
• Shen Jiayue — Veteran player and wardmate. Explains the purpose of free time and restrains Ran Yan from approaching Bo Yi during the guarded ritual 176 198.
• Other veteran players — Initially regarded as potential teachers. Ran Yan loses respect for them as they prioritize medicine, avoid searching, and attempt to benefit from others’ work without contributing 176 195 196 208 214.

Notable Quotes

“After all, I have to find her alive, or at least find her body...” 185